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Birds Fighting?

The other day I observed a very interesting “bird incident.” I was eating breakfast, when I heard a commotion of squawking out front. I went to the front window and saw two birds going at it, almost taking turns attacking each other. After watching for a few minutes, I returned to my breakfast. About twenty minutes later, I looked out again and they were STILL going at each other! Their persistence was amazing. At this point, wanting to record this, I decided to go get my Flip Video camcorder, knowing full well that by the time I did this, they would be gone. They weren’t. Neither did they fly off when I stepped outside, but they did start covering a wider territory.

Before you watch this little movie, let me apologize in advance. This was the first time I actually tried to record something with this Flip Video and the results are pretty terrible. It’s very bouncy at the first because I was trying to follow the birds out to the side yard. After about one minute, there is a swooshing sound which is the wind. But, despite the poor quality, I think you’ll get the sense of how relentless these birds were.

So, here it is. It runs three minutes and 7 seconds, but it gets more passionate the further you go. Again, I know it’s totally bouncy. Just bear with it. I’m learning.

After viewing this, the thought did occur to me that maybe these two birds could be mating. Since I had no idea how birds mate, I checked with Answers.com and they explained it like this:

The female bird unfans her tail, moves it to one side while the male climbs onto her back or gets close to her. Their cloacas are pressed together and the sperm moves from the male to the female. This act is called a “cloacal kiss.”

So, the question is, were they fighting or having sex? If they were having sex and I was filming them, then that would make me a dirty old lady, wouldn’t it? But don’t get too cocky! Wouldn’t that also mean that you just sat there and viewed avian porn?